Private cooking class at a Cesarina's home with tasting in Matera

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What You’ll Experience
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Duration
3 hours
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Number of Guests
1 - 8 guests
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English, Italian
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Join an intimate cooking class at a Cesarina's home in Matera. Craft and savor traditional dishes with local wines. Learn authentic recipes with a welcoming Italian home cook.

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For each guest that attends this experience, byFood will donate
10 meals

Experience Details

Immerse yourself in a private cooking class at the Cesarina's home, learn the secrets of the most famous dishes of Matera cuisine and taste the fruit of your labour accompanied by a glass of local wine.


During the lesson the Cesarina will reveal the tricks of the trade of 3 authentic Matera recipes. Have fun putting your cooking skills to the test. Each participant will have a workstation equipped with utensils and all the ingredients to make the dishes. Then, taste everything you have prepared accompanied by a selection of red and white local wines.


Cesarine is Italy’s oldest network of 1000+ home cooks all over the country in more than 120 cities. They are passionate and welcoming hosts that open the doors of their own homes to curious travellers for immersive culinary experiences.

Sample Menu

MAIN
typical Italian pasta in different types

What You Get

Beverages (water, wines and coffee)
Private Cooking Class
Tastings of the 3 recipes

Good To Know

  • Please note that our Cesarine are ready and thrilled to host you in their homes! All Cesarine are always very careful and attentive of the important sanitary rules needed, even more now! The homes provide all the essential sanitary equipment for the guests (paper towels for washing hands, hand sanitizing gel and so on). Remember to always maintain 1 meter distance from each other and if not, wear masks and gloves
  • Public transportation options are available nearby

What You’ll Experience

Your experience will take place in a carefully selected local home in Matera, or the surrounding area (you can decide how far you'd like to travel). We cannot share the address of our host for privacy reason. Upon booking, you will receive all the details you'll need.

Meeting & Pickup

Meeting Point

Province of Matera, Province of Matera Basilicata, Italy, IT

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This experience will be held in one of our Cesarina homes and, for privacy reason, you will receive the full address of your Cesarina host after you have booked. We will contact you after you've booked to match you up with your ideal Cesarina based on what you are looking for.
End Point

This experience ends at the meeting point.

Cancellation Policy

Cancel your booking at least 24 hours before the experience start time to receive a full refund minus a 3.2% transaction fee.

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What People Are Saying
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Home cooked meal
August 14, 2024
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While we loved meeting our host and enjoyed a lovely home cooked meal, we did not have a cooking class which is what we paid for.

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A delightful evening in Matera.
August 06, 2024
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Bruna was incredible. Her joyful disposition and hospitality was so wonderful. We created some interesting local dishes. We met some incredible people during this class as well. An evening of gr...read more

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Amazing local dinner experience
August 30, 2022
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Lucia was an incredible hostess, she was Agracious, knowledgeable and talented. Her sister provided translation and was also an enjoyable team partner. We learned how to make two types of pasta...read more

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Fun and delicious participative cooking class
September 27, 2021
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Great fun and genuine hands on local experience with Anna Maria cooking a delicious lunch. Everything was well organised in advance with a minimum of fuss and so we had time to make the pasta toget...read more

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